I finally had some time to try to track down this problem further.  I set the
log levels to ALL, but still nothing useful showing up.  However, I found a
curious thing in my access log.  Consider this snippet:

76.19.64.19 - - [18/Apr/2008:04:29:37 +0000] "GET /theme.css HTTP/1.1" 200
6360
76.19.64.19 - - [18/Apr/2008:04:29:37 +0000] "GET
/B2200E18EF2035F53CA3D7E241122BB6.cache.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -

The theme.css file is served up gzipped but
B2200E18EF2035F53CA3D7E241122BB6.cache.html is not! Notice the "-" printed
at the very end.  The doc for the access log valve describes this field as
"Bytes sent, excluding HTTP headers, or '-' if zero".  So the access log
thinks that zero bytes are being sent for this file.

This is not true, as the file does get properly served, just not gzipped. 
Seems like an indication of some other problem, though.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Here is the file itself if any of the contributors reading this would like
to try to debug.  I'd try it myself, but I can't repro the problem in my
Windows dev environment - it only happens in my CentOS production
environment.  (Hope the attachment worked - I'm writing this from Nabble).

http://www.nabble.com/file/p16760347/B2200E18EF2035F53CA3D7E241122BB6.cache.html
B2200E18EF2035F53CA3D7E241122BB6.cache.html 

Here are the possible causes I can think of right now: 1) the file is too
big, almost 200 KB 2) the dual-extension, .cache.html 3) filename too long. 
That's pretty much it.  I don't think it's the contents inside the file -
I've gone through several incarnations of these (they are generated by my
compiler), and not a single one has successfully gotten gzipped.

Thanks again for your time,
Alex


Alex Epshteyn wrote:
> 
> I have Tomcat's compression enabled:
> 
> <Connector port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
>                maxThreads="200" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
>                enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
>                connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true"
>                compression="on"
>                compressionMinSize="2048"
>                noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
>               
> compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/javascript,text/css"/>
> 
> It works as expected for all my resources (stylesheets, scripts, etc)
> except for one static file, which has the extension .cache.html (in
> case you're wondering, it contains scripts generated by GWT).  This
> file is pretty large - about 150K, but Tomcat doesn't compress it for
> some reason.
> 
> Here are the response headers for this file (I have a custom filter
> that sets the cache headers prior to forwarding the request up the
> chain):
> 
> Server        Apache-Coyote/1.1
> Cache-Control public, max-age=315360000
> Expires       Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:58:38 GMT
> Etag  W/"136900-1206809984000"
> Last-Modified Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:59:44 GMT
> Content-Type  text/html
> Content-Length        136900
> Date  Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:44:14 GMT
> 
> Here are the response headers for a file that gets properly compressed
> (which also passes through the same filter):
> 
> Server        Apache-Coyote/1.1
> Pragma        no-cache
> Cache-Control max-age=0, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
> Expires       Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
> Etag  W/"4869-1206809984000"
> Last-Modified Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:59:44 GMT
> Content-Type  text/javascript
> Transfer-Encoding     chunked
> Content-Encoding      gzip
> Vary  Accept-Encoding
> Date  Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:44:14 GMT
> 
> I don't see any relevant errors in my log files.  I'm using Tomcat
> 5.5.26 on Linux.   As a strange twist, the file does get compressed
> properly with Tomcat 5.5.26 on Windows.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> Alex
> 

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